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2025 Trend Report for the Food and Beverage Industry

2025 promises to be a transformative year for the food and beverage sector. Strengthen your business strategy and gain a lasting competitive edge with this practical guide to the industry’s most significant challenges an..

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ABN AMRO: 'Margins in food sector under pressure'.

08 November 2021

The food sector faces many challenges in the period ahead. Higher energy prices, increased raw material costs and staff shortages will have a major impact on business operations and the already thin margins of food entre...

Sismatec rebuilding nears final phase

08 November 2021

Recently, Sismatec, supplier of A-brand machines for preparing, processing, portioning, filling, dosing, weighing and packaging of food and pharmaceutical products, has outgrown its own premises. The company is currently...

Westerkwartier Food Agreement gets the go-ahead

08 November 2021

The Board of Mayors and Aldermen of the municipality of Westerkwartier has approved the Implementation Plan Food Agreement. By doing so, it gives the starting signal for a first set of activities in the field of food, he...

Change in tariffs of NVWA for inspections in slaughterhouses

04 November 2021

Minister Schouten of LNV has decided that the fees for inspections and monitoring in slaughterhouses will not cover the costs, but will increase by a maximum of 2.4%. This percentage is based on the weighted average of t...

Vaessen-Schoemaker continues as Vaess

03 November 2021

In recent years, Vaessen-Schoemaker - which turns 75 in November 2021 - has experienced strong growth, both organically and through a number of acquisitions. In order to support the further international strategy and to ...

Feedback: 'Supermarkets continue to offer meat too cheaply'

02 November 2021

Dutch supermarkets are doing too little to drastically reduce their climate impact. In their communication they emphasise reducing CO2 emissions in their own shops and their transport, but 95% of emissions come from the ...

Food industry sales prices rise further

02 November 2021

Domestic output prices in the food industry rose by 11.7 percent in September 2021. This is almost double the price increases realised abroad (+6.8 percent). Sectors in the food industry where domestic output prices rose...

'Sustainable food system should be a priority'

02 November 2021

One third of global greenhouse gas emissions come from food systems. About a third of all food produced does not end up on our plates. Yet a more sustainable food system remains a blind spot in climate policy, nationally...

Jan Zandbergen Group builds new innovation centre

01 November 2021

On Tuesday 26 October, CEO Peter-Paul Zandbergen symbolically laid the first stone of a new food development centre. Jan Zandbergen Group 'Innovation that matters' - comprising Jan Zandbergen B.V., Diviande and Future Fo...

Large decline in meat consumption in 2020

29 October 2021

Last year the meat consumption declined with 1,9 kg per person compared to 2019. The total consumption of meat and cold cuts per capita in the Netherlands in 2020 was 75.9 kg. This outcome was based on calculations by Wa...

Supermarkets achieve significant energy savings

28 October 2021

Saving energy and reducing CO2 emissions has been at the top of the supermarket sector's agenda for years. And efforts to reduce energy consumption have borne fruit. In the period 2010-2020, an efficiency rate of 23.6 pe...

Major growth in number of food companies

26 October 2021

In the first nine months of this year the number of companies in the food industry rose by 11.7 percent to a total of 6,865. During this period 720 companies were added. The absolute growth in this period was strongest i...

Juicier and healthier vegan meat due to heated soya-protein

25 October 2021

The production industry uses a standard method to extract proteins from soybeans. PhD student Yu Peng from Wageningen University altered this industrial process, making vegetarian meat juicier and healthier. Juicy veg...

Nutreco and Mosa Meat to lower costs of cultivated meat

25 October 2021

Nutreco and Mosa Meat announce on 21 October that the European REACT-EU recovery assistance programme awards their joint ‘Feed for Meat’ project with a grant of almost EUR 2M to advance cellular agriculture and bring cul...

UK food allergy labelling laws tightened

21 October 2021

Since 1 October, the UK Food Information Amendment, better known as Natasha's Law, has been in force, requiring the labelling of pre-packaged food for immediate sale to include a full list of ingredients with the 14 most...